April Fool's Day Special: 7 Foolish Gems Generating Machines

On 1st April, we walk down memory lane to fish out 7 esteemed personalities who keep us entertained with their 'foolish' statements all year round.

__START__Digvijay Singh

A gold mine of gaffes-Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh is a reliable source of all things silly , on any topic under the sun. He has dropped verbal bombs like 'Arvind Kejriwal is like Rakhi Sawant', called terrorist Osama Bin Laden as Osama ji, is forever anointing Rahul Gandhi as the next PM, starts defending people on their behalf, whether they like it or not, namely asking Narendra Modi where is his wife after Modi labelled Sunanda Tharoor as a 50 crore girlfriend. Diggy Raja has been an unstoppable force.

__PAGEBREAK__1. Ram Jethmalani

Hey Ram!Motor mouth Ram Jethmalani was suspended from BJP when he went on a verbal rampage, condemning the then BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and then topping it up with the gem-'Ram was a bad husband for exiling Sita'.

__PAGEBREAK__2. Justice Katju

Should we have sympathy for Justice Katju? Given the fact he labelled 90% of Indians as fools. He also compared Indians to cattle when he remarked that 90%(what's with his love for this percentage?) Indians vote in droves like sheep and cattle. They are like a herd of cattle voting along caste and religious lines'. He also came under fire for defending Sanjay Dutt in the 1993 blast case. All his ramblings make us wonder (we the 'idiots'), why do we even bother?

__PAGEBREAK__3. Sushil Kumar Shinde

Our beloved Home Minister is a rare species indeed. The list of gaffes is seemingly endless, so much so that our list of 'Top 5 Foot in Mouth Statements' by him seems to beg us for monthly updates. Do go through the list because we have to add two more Shinde gems to it. The Home Minister read out the names of three girls who were raped and killed in Bhandara district of Maharashtra. As per Supreme Court guidelines, rape victims cannot be named. A week later, he committed yet another faux pas in Lok Sabha by reading out twice a part of his statement on the terrorist attack in Srinagar.Members were agitated and even Shinde's ministerial colleagues were looking in disbelief as the Home Minister started reading the statement for the second time.Unmindful of this, Shinde went on and read out almost half of the five-paragraph statement.

__PAGEBREAK__4. Beni Prasad Verma

Bery bery silly Beni. The Union Minister has recently landed Congress in a soup by going all out against SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, labelling him a terrorist and then being forced to apologize. But who can overlook his gems from last year when he declared he was “happy” over the rising prices of food items as it would benefit farmers and defended his colleague Salman Khurshid by saying," I don’t think a person like Khurshid will do anything for an amount like Rs. 71 lakh. It is a very small amount for a Central Minister". Zoinks!

__PAGEBREAK__5. Mamata Banerjee

Where do we start? Didi thinks rapes are increasing because population is increasing. She also thinks rape cases are on a rise in the country because men and women interact with each other more freely now. She also asked in a rally in West Bengal, "Should I beat up the PM?"

__PAGEBREAK__6. Rahul Gandhi

Twitter's favourite bashing target, Rahul Gandhi has been at the far end of so many cruel jokes regarding his intelligence, that the hashtag RahulDay was the top trend on Twitter all day on April Fool's Day. Too many to list down here, you can go through a compilation of his dumb statements over the years here. Late additions which could not be covered in the list include this zinger from a rally in Gujarat.where he asked the crowd, "How much is a kilo of potatoes selling for?" To which the crowd shouted back"Rs 3!". Now clearly that answer is absurd. But Mr. Gandhi didn't get that asked,"Then how is a packet of potato chips Rs 10? Who loses ultimately?"He then asked the crowd,"How did you get the mobile phone? "Do you have a phone? Telecom, computers work was done by Rajiv Gandhi & Sam Pitroda who is also from Gujarat."